Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)
Effect of packaging materials on quality parameters of guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. Hisar Safeda during storage after transportation
Author(s): Avesh, Surender Singh, MK Rana and JR Sharma
Abstract: An experiment was conducted in Post-harvest Laboratory of the Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar to find the effect of nine packaging materials viz., sealed and perforated poly bags, wooden boxes with no cushioning, wooden boxes lined with newspaper lining, wooden boxes with paddy straw, wooden boxes lined with newspaper cuttings, corrugated fibreboard boxes lined with newspaper cuttings, corrugated fibreboard boxes without newspaper cuttings and plastic crates without cushioning used during transportation, on physiological parameters of guava cv. Hisar Safeda stored at room temperature during rainy season of 2017. The total distance covered by road for the transportation of packed guava fruits was 200 km (Hisar to Charkhi Dadri and back to Hisar). The data were recorded on total soluble solids, titratable acidity, ascorbic acid content, total soluble solids to acid ratio, reducing sugars, non-reducing sugar, total sugars, pectin content and organoleptic rating during storage. The results reveal that guava fruits packed in corrugated fibreboard box lined with newspaper cuttings had maximum total soluble solids, total soluble solids to acid ratio, ascorbic acid content, total sugars, reducing sugars and organoleptic rating and minimum acidity, while guava fruits packed in wooden box lined with paddy straw and wooden box lined with newspaper lining had maximum non-reducing sugar and pectin content respectively. The results of the experiment indicate that corrugated fibreboard boxes had a significantly overall positive influence on most of the recorded parameters.
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Avesh, Surender Singh, MK Rana, JR Sharma. Effect of packaging materials on quality parameters of guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. Hisar Safeda during storage after transportation. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(3):2880-2886.
